Roos to Melb

[Nich]

Just playing his cards close I reckon. He'd make a good poker player.

[giant]

Roosy being very cryptic on the couch tonight about why he is looking at coaching melbourne but implication is that something not right at the swans

It was a strange comment, wasn't it? Yet he was perfectly congenial with Colless.

[hot potato]

Roosy should have taken a somewhat stronger posture with Healy and Sheehan, a lot of that process has to be private until the press conference , he tries to be so gentlemanly but needs to go the other way at times. I know OTC want the 'exclusive' , but they could chill for the sake of his family.
Tami probably hates the very thought of 24/7 footy in their lives again, especially in Melbourne.

[billyboob]

Roosy being very cryptic on the couch tonight about why he is looking at coaching melbourne but implication is that something not right at the swans

You're picking up on something that's not there. He was referring to stuff which would be ludicrous to talk about in public so early into negotiations. Contract, team etc.

[ernie koala]

I'm assuming he's going....It all points that way, he just needs Tami's seal of approval.

Couldn't care either way....Good luck to him, he'll need it.

What does concern me was his evasiveness when asked about poaching Swans people, who the Swans don't want to let go.

His final mumbled comment was something like...." At the end of the day, if you at another club your allegiances lie there." hmmm

There has always been something about him I've struggled with...his double speak, his need to be portrayed as the good guy.....His commentary of Swans games...yuk.

I'm very happy with the straight shooting Horse....IMO, a better guy, a better coach, with an ever evolving game plan....not just defence, defence and more defence, with a dash of double speak about "playing the

youngsters"...which he often talked about but rarely did.

[Cardinal]

Definite implication on OTC that something had changed or was amiss at the Swans.

The mood would sure change around RWO if Roos does go to the Dees and takes a dream team comprised of half the Swan's coaching staff.

[crackedactor]

same thought

Definite implication on OTC that something had changed or was amiss at the Swans.

The mood would sure change around RWO if Roos does go to the Dees and takes a dream team comprised of half the Swan's coaching staff.

That is what worries me. I mean guys like Crouch, Mayfair, Dew, Blakey, Tudor etc have been great for the Swans. I would hate it if he took a couple of those guys.

[The Big Cat]

Definite implication on OTC that something had changed or was amiss at the Swans.

The mood would sure change around RWO if Roos does go to the Dees and takes a dream team comprised of half the Swan's coaching staff.

Naaah! He mentioned near the end of the program that he loves the club and is ever indebted to it.

[Cardinal]

Fully committed means doing whatever it takes, including poaching staff - we shall see.

[0918330512]

That is what worries me. I mean guys like Crouch, Mayfair, Dew, Blakey, Tudor etc have been great for the Swans. I would hate it if he took a couple of those guys.

He can take Mayfair for all I care! So long as he doesn't put his grubby little mitts on Henry Playfair

[Auntie.Gerald]

its feeling like a little bit of a St Kilda / Malcolm Blight feel about it !

13 years ago this season coming !

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[YvonneH]

[QUOTE=Cardinal;622410]Definite implication on OTC that something had changed or was amiss at the Swans.

I also felt that way, but am hoping that it does not apply. Would be a pity if he took George Stone, Stuey, John Blakey etc with him. I heard mentioned somewhere else where Leigh Tudor maybe in the running for the Brisbane job.

[Triple B]

He can take Mayfair for all I care!

Yeah, Mayfair 'aint worth jack if he hasn't got Park Lane to go with it.....

[BillyRayCypress]

Fully committed means doing whatever it takes, including poaching staff - we shall see.

Yes that was very clear from what he said.

I wonder how much of his success with the Swans was his talent or the players around him. In my opinion he jumped ship before he was asked to leave in terms of coaching the Swans. They had gone as far as they were going to go under him.

He must be paid very well for his current media roles to knock back the money that the Demons are throwing at him.

I really hope he takes the role. It might be Hird all over in terms of coaching success. Ignoring "Big Ears" peptide/unknown drug program to help his coaching.

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Yeah, Mayfair 'aint worth jack if he hasn't got Park Lane to go with it.....

As long as he doesn't take Kings Cross.

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He was asked several times what had changed to get him from 0 to 50:50 and said he'd prefer not to say. Sheehan asked him whether it was something at the swans and he again said he'd prefer not to say.

I could be reading too much into it, but Sheehan usually only asks where he knows something and Roos could easily have said, nah nothing to do with the club it's some personal issue or something.

The news from Moore Park is that Roos isn't happy with the amount of times the Swans are cleaning the birds poo off his statue. Its out in the open whereas Kelly's is undercover. Each day he takes Colless out to it after his complaints then says "Richard, here it is !!!!"

[KTigers]

The reference on OTC to things changing at the Swans that he (Roos) didn't want to talk about will almost certainly be about
money. If Roos does end up at Melbourne, he will need to be paid a lot of money, that will essentially be ponied up by the AFL.
But if you go back far enough, did Ron Barassi rock up here in 1993 for peanuts? I doubt it. Where did that money come from?
The same place. The AFL. Sheedy? the same thing. It's just the nature of being a "saviour" coach, you need to be paid a lot. Each
win by a "saviour" coach comes at a massive financial cost. Barassi "won" 13 games in three years at the Swans (though Plugger had a pretty big input into eight of them in 1995 as I remember. Sheedy "won" 4 games in two years at GWS. Roosy? best case scenario would
probably be 20 wins and 46 losses over three years at the Demons. As for assistant coaches leaving the Swans to go to Melbourne. Well,
that would be their choice. Assistants leave clubs all the time. We have a great coach in Longmire, and everyone should have faith in him
to get "the help" he needs.